Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Barbara Jaffe said GOP consultant Cheryl Jacobus had no case against Trump– who called her a “real dummy” on Twitter last year– because his statements were a matter of opinion, not fact.

Jacobus said the Twitter insult was in retaliation for her criticizing Trump’s policies on CNN after she turned down a job offer from his campaign.

Trump also called Jacobus a “major loser” on Twitter claiming she had “begged” for a job and then trashed him on the TV circuit after he turned her down.

The judge found that it was clear Trump and Jacobus were “engaged in a petty quarrel.”

“His tweets about his critics, necessarily restricted to 140 characters or less, are rife with vague and simplistic insults such as ‘loser’ or ‘total loser’ or ‘totally biased loser,’ ‘dummy’ or ‘dope’ or dumb,’ ‘zero/no credibility,’ ‘crazy’ or ‘wacko’ and ‘disaster,’ all deflecting serious consideration,” Judge Jaffe wrote. She mused that Trump may have chosen to communicate primarily through Twitter to “avoid liability.”

Really dumb @CheriJacobus. Begged my people for a job. Turned her down twice and she went hostile. Major loser, zero credibility!

Still, she said, his ‘hyperbolic political” speech is protected by the First Amendment.
Judge Jaffe also waded into the current raging debate about fake news.

“Indeed, to some, truth itself has been lost in the cacophony of online and Twitter verbiage to such a degree that it seems to roll off the national consciousness like water off a duck’s back,” she wrote.